Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mile. The prizes will be cups. Second prizes will be given in races where four or more canoes start. Races are open only to members of the club. Persons may join the club upon payment to the treasurer of $3, for active membership; $1 for associate membership, besides the cost of the club burgee...
...course in any other part of the college. The corporation, therefore, thought it necessary to charge the student who elects a laboratory course more than one who takes any other course. Just so much money is allowed the laboratory for running expenses as is deemed sufficient, according to the cost of running other buildings in the university. The fee of $15 which is charged each year is to cover the cost of reagents and supplies on the desks of the laboratory, and also all costs incidental to a laboratory course, over and above the cost of carrying on any other...
...regular fee of $15 is paid on the first term bill under the item of "Laboratory supplies and damage of apparatus." Besides this, at the end of the year another fee is required to cover the cost of actual breakage made by each laboratory student. This fee varies with the care exercised by the student. On the last term bill it appears under the same item of expense as the first fee, and hence our correspondent's error. The last fee is for nothing but damages to apparatus and for any chemicals, besides the regular reagents used by the student...
...well to notice here that this is merely for instruction, as additional charges are made to each one individually for breakage and chemicals used. We fail to see why the instruction in Chemistry should cost more than that in the other branches of instruction; surely, many of these courses where the professor only meets the class occasionally, and then only for a few minutes, should not be paid for more dearly than the most advanced courses in History or Mathematics. The students have suffered this imposition for two years already, and it may last several more unless they protest...
...been received it will number about eight hundred volumes (exclusive of periodicals and pamphlets), illustrating the history, geography, antiquities, and art of ancient Greece. Works of this kind are expensive, and at the end of the second year the books in the library obtained by direct purchase will have cost $2500. Of this sum the committee voted from its funds $2000." The remaining $500 was the gift of a friend, whose name is withheld. A list of the theses which were presented by six of the seven members of the school during the first year, is given, together with...